Westley

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  1. We.... sorta used up all our tissues.... for other purposes.....
  2. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Bionic_Flea View Post
    I have enough trouble keeping up with this board. Why do I need another rehashing the same ground?
    So... the point of this thread was?

    Sorry for the semi-necro, I found this post again by finding out where we stand on Google.
  3. And it started off as such a nice post too... a shame.
  4. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Electric-Knight View Post
    ***ur ignorin this dude***

    I'm sorry, did you say something?
  5. Arcana... your mind scares me sometimes.

    I sure hope you're making over 100K, because you're sure worth more than that.
  6. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Silver Gale View Post
    Human nature and the underlying fallacies on which our modern world runs are all well and good, but don't lose sight of the important point in this: Will our pretendy funtime superhero game still be here for us this time next year?
    Depends. Is NCSoft happy with any profit at all, or do they expect perpetual growth in profit. Because companies have and WILL cut divisions... not because they are FAILING, but because they aren't measuring up to the artificial goals that the corporate number crunchers set for them that don't necessarily reflect reality.

    That's something I'm dealing with right now in the company I work for, incidentally.
  7. Bah, I wrote a whole long spiel that I spent a couple hours thinking up and no one even comments on it? Blah!
  8. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Scarlet Shocker View Post
    I'm a troll? Damn I wanted to be a Hellion...
    A lesbian Hellion?
  9. Quote:
    Originally Posted by BBQ_Pork View Post
    In an alternate identity, she would likely go from a trampy personna to a prude one, maybe even close-minded and tad bigotted towards certain groups. In classic comics style, she would have some kind of alliteration between the two names, so Ga Ga would have something just a little reminicent with the dual G sounds.
    But she would still be desperate for attention and have a very loose grasp on reality.



  10. Westley

    Tankender??????

    The F is important.

    It is the difference between a Defender acting as a tank, and someone doing a tank in the rear.

    The F is important.
  11. I'm going to post something here that's completely relevant to this that I posted over on the Unleashed boards:

    The Fallacy of Perpetual Growth

    This is the cause of many of the failings of the modern world. It is a function of greed. It is the concept that has been pushed out by MBAs (Masters of Business Administration) and slowly infected into every publicly owned business like a disease. It's the fallacy of perpetual growth.

    If you have ever worked for ANY public company in any kind of position higher than entry level, you've seen this in one form or another. Metrics, bean counters, that all say "THIS quarter must have better numbers than LAST quarter!" and "THIS quarter must have better numbers than the same quarter last year!".

    That is the fallacy of perpetual growth. You also see this in the government. In fact, social security is BASED on the concept that there will always be a larger and larger working class to pay for the ever growing retired class.

    But it is indeed a fallacy, IT'S NOT THE WAY REALITY WORKS. Things ebb and flow, the economy ebbs and flows, business success and consumer purchasing ebbs and flows. Business should fluctuate WITH it.

    This is why the most stable companies that exist today are sole-proprietor companies or family owned businesses. Oh sure, most of them are not huge and most of them are not global. Hell, very few are even national. But they are ALWAYS THERE.

    Why? Because when one person or a small group has a personal stake in the company, they don't have to be beholden to stockholders and the fallacy of constant growth. If my company profited 100K net last year, and this year is a "tough" year, I don't HAVE to drive for 125K or 150K or even 100K... I can be happy with LESS. I can be happy making a MEASLY profit as long as we stay stable and stay in business and don't lose money. I can take the LONG view.

    If I don't have the money to increase my business, I can WAIT and SAVE the money and buy expansions outright in my own time. The growth of my business can be related to the success of my business. If I'm doing poorly and have a small franchise, I can cut one or two stores out and sell them off and keep the rest operating the same way. I don't have to cut corners everywhere and stress every one of my employees out. I don't HAVE to make them "do more with less".

    Public companies can't do that. They are pushed on all sides for ever increasing profits and ever expanding GROWTH of the company.

    And do you know what I see happening? In every business that I've ever worked with? The company is becoming a behemoth monster, constantly growing in size, while at the same time eating itself from the inside out, until all that's left is a gigantic skeleton with no meat left... just scrawny bones that can collapse or any moment.

    Or better yet, a better example is Jenga. Yes, Jenga.



    THAT is the end result of the fallacy of perpetual growth. You pull from the bottom to feed the top and guess what's going to happen? Eventually, it's all going to tumble down.

    So what do I suggest? Let all these companies wear themselves out and eat their infrastructure from the inside out. Let them topple and fall, and the smartest ones among them, the ones that have had to "make do with less" for years and years and years and learn how to be innovative to not lose their jobs.... when they finally lose their jobs because the entire business collapses... they can start their own business... and OWN it.

    I guess what I'm trying to say here is.... the concept of the public company has failed in my opinion, and we need to go back to the concept of the private company.

    Because private companies are not subject to the fallacy of perpetual growth.
  12. I don't think that's new...
  13. This thread should now be all about the deliciousness of Magic Bars.






  14. Westley

    Merging servers.

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by rsclark View Post
    What on earth are you talking about, Mr Cryptic?
    Oh, I see your post now. Dude, I'm an adult. I have a job.

    Do it Sunday. Pinnacle. 1pm-3pm. No asking your SG members to log characters onto that server. No TF, just a 40-50 mission group. You will fail. There will probably not be enough characters on who don't explicitly refuse such groups in their LFG message to make a full team.

    I'll give you the win if you hit 5 counting yourself within the time frame.

    And no people in this thread cheating to make a point.


    And damn, you're an *******.
    The challenge today was right now. The Open Challenge is for a week's notice. Why a week's notice? Because of my job.

    And because of my job, I'm going to be driving to Chicago on Sunday to be in training for the next three weeks. That's actually why I have today off, so that they don't have to pay me overtime to travel on Sunday. They also gave me Monday off this week so that I'd work on Saturday for free. Jerks.

    Now if you'd like to set it up for NEXT Sunday, that should be fine as I'll be sitting in my hotel room in Chicago on my work laptop.

    And no, I don't ******* cheat. I only make pick up groups. I HAVE no SG, I HAVE no friends in game. I'm such a dick that no one will be my friend in game.
  15. Westley

    Merging servers.

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by rsclark View Post
    What on earth are you talking about, Mr Cryptic?
    I directly responded to you above. I even sent you a Private Message POINTING to the post to make sure that you would see it.
  16. Westley

    Merging servers.

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Ironblade View Post
    OR ELSE!

    Seriously, do we have to be so confrontational about it?
    The result of frustrations of people constantly saying the wrong things over and over again.
  17. Westley

    Merging servers.

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by rsclark View Post
    It's almost like i said that already.

    Oh wait, there it is -"Now, I don't know whether to blame any changes on lower population or simply on the effect IO sets and the new difficulty settings have had on the ability to solo content".

    Most of the people in this thread are stuck in some defensive mindset, where every criticism of the current state game is taken as a pronouncement of doom and reacted to with canned responses that don't actually correspond to the complaints made.

    It might help if people would not quote walls of text and actually read what's on the screen before responding.

    I still don't see you putting up.
  18. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Marcian Tobay View Post
    She does. She flashes the camera very baltently and characters discuss her lack of man bitties.

    No, she doesn't I just watched the "uncensored" video on YouTube. They still blur out that area completely with blurry stuff. That proves nothing. By the way, you owe me a new pair of eyes for making me watch that crap.
  19. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Marcian Tobay View Post
    You haven't seen "Telephone", have you?
    Full frontal nudity or it didn't happen!
  20. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Acemace View Post
    Hmm, who in CoX lore is short, somewhat homely looking and in need of 24/7 attention.. damnit I should know this one.
    Mynx?
  21. Westley

    Merging servers.

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by rsclark View Post
    Name your server.
    Doesn't matter. I'll tell you what, name YOUR server, right now, get on, and I'll form you a full team. I have the day off.

    It's the middle of the day on a Thursday, so trying to find a team right now must SUCK, RIGHT? I'll give you 20 minutes to respond here with your in-game character name.

    Put up, or shut up.
  22. The positive one was from me. Because I'm an *******. Makes you wonder about how high my rep must be, huh?
  23. Westley

    Merging servers.

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by SwellGuy View Post
    I don't think I've ever read anyone against merging the lists to allow people the choice other than the issue of the global names that would need to be worked out.
    Oh that could be easily fixed by doing the NA/EU thing they did on these forums and giving out another free global rename token.
  24. Westley

    Merging servers.

    I agree with merging the server list. I don't agree with merging the servers themselves.